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### QuickCloud Toolbar

Portable QuickCloud toolbar

The QuickCloud toolbar is only available when PC-DMIS is licensed and configured as a Portable device. It provides the buttons to complete all the steps from beginning to end for working with COP.

The toolbar features drop-down button functionality for the Auto Feature and Dimension buttons. PC-DMIS stores the last-selected option for each button and displays it the next time the QuickCloud toolbar appears.

The drop-down buttons can be added to any toolbar capable of being customized in PC-DMIS from the View | Toolbars | Customize menu option.

For details on all Pointcloud toolbar buttons, see "Pointcloud Toolbar" in the PC-DMIS Laser documentation.

The following options are available:

Import from CAD file - Displays the Open dialog box, which you can use to navigate to and import any one of the supported part models from your library. Select the Files of Type drop-down list to view the available file types. For details, see "Importing a CAD File" in the "Using Advanced File Options" chapter in the PC-DMIS Core documentation.

CAD Vectors - Displays the CAD Vectors dialog box where you can view and manipulate surface vectors. For details, see "Editing CAD Vectors" in the "Editing the CAD Display" chapter in the PC-DMIS Core documentation.

Pointcloud Filtering Plane - Displays the Laser Data Collection Settings dialog box. Use it to define data filtering and an exclusion plane for your pointcloud data. For details, see "Laser Data Collection Settings" in the PC-DMIS Laser documentation.

Select Pointcloud - This pointcloud operator provides, by default, the Polygon selection method. Select the vertices of the polygon and then press the End key to close it.

The Select Pointcloud option differs from the use of the pointcloud operator because it only applies the function and is not added as a command. To create the command, open the pointcloud operator and choose the Select method.

Pointcloud Operator - Displays the Pointcloud Operator dialog box. Use it to perform different operations on Cloud of Points (COP) commands and other Pointcloud operator commands. For details, see "Pointcloud Operators" in the PC-DMIS Laser documentation.

Pointcloud Alignment - Creates Pointcloud to CAD and COP to COP alignments. For details, see "Pointcloud/CAD Alignment Dialog Box Description" in the "Pointcloud Alignments" chapter in the PC-DMIS Laser documentation.

Clean Pointcloud - When clicked, the CLEAN operation immediately eliminates outlier COP points based on the default MAX DISTANCE of the points to the CAD. If the distance of a point is greater than the value of MAX DISTANCE, the point is considered an outlier and does not belong to the part. To use this operation, you must have at least a rough alignment established. For details on creating rough alignments, see "Creating a Pointcloud/CAD Alignment" in the PC-DMIS Laser documentation. For more details on the Clean Pointcloud operator, see "CLEAN" in the "Pointcloud Operators" chapter in the PC-MIS Laser documentation.

Cross Section - Opens the Pointcloud Operator dialog box with the CROSS SECTION option selected in the Operator drop-down list. For details on creating cross section features, see "CROSS SECTION" in the "Pointcloud Operators" chapter in the PC-DMIS Laser documentation.

Click the drop-down arrow to display the Cross Section toolbar:

For details on the buttons to show and hide cross section polylines, see "Show and Hide Cross Section Polylines" in the PC-DMIS Laser documentation.

Pointcloud Mesh - Displays the Mesh Command dialog box so that you can define a mesh command from pointclouds. For details, see "Creating a Mesh Feature" in the PC-DMIS Laser documentation.

Pointcloud Point Colormap - Opens the Pointcloud Operator dialog box with the POINT COLORMAP option selected in the Operator drop-down list. For details, see "POINT COLORMAP" in the "Pointcloud Operators" chapter in the PC-DMIS Laser documentation.

Pointcloud Surface Colormap - Displays the Pointcloud Operator dialog box with the Surface Colormap operator selected. The SURFACE COLORMAP operation applies a colored shading to the CAD model. The model is shaded based on the deviations of the cloud of points compared to CAD using the colors defined in the Edit Dimension Color dialog box (Edit | Graphic Display Window | Dimension Color) and the tolerance limits specified in the Upper tolerance and Lower tolerance boxes. For details on the Pointcloud Surface Colormap operator, see "SURFACE COLORMAP" in the "Pointcloud Operators" chapter in the PC-DMIS Laser documentation.

You can create multiple surface colormaps in a PC-DMIS measurement routine. Only one is active at a time, however. The last surface colormap that you applied and created, or the last one you executed, is always the currently-active colormap. You can also select which colormap is the active one by using the FaceColormaps list box. When a new colormap is activated, its associated scale with tolerance values and any annotations appear in the Graphic Display window.

To do this, click the FaceColormaps list box and select the colormap from the list of defined Surface Colormap operators:

Caliper button - The Caliper is a quick-check tool that works similarly to a physical caliper. It provides a local two-point size check on the Pointcloud (COP), Mesh, or COPOPER (such as the COPSELECT, COPCLEAN, or COPFILTER) object. The Caliper shows the measured length along the selected axis or direction.

Auto Feature button and drop-down arrow - Displays the Auto Feature dialog box that is related to the icon shown on the button. From the dialog box, you can select any of the available feature commands to insert into the measurement routine.

To display the Auto Feature toolbar, click the drop-down arrow:

For information on Auto Features, see "Inserting Auto Features" in the "Creating Auto Features" chapter in the PC-DMIS Core documentation.

Dimension button and drop-down arrow - Displays the Dimension dialog box that is related to the icon shown on the button. From the dialog box, you can select any of the available dimension commands to insert into the measurement routine.

To display the Dimension toolbar, click the drop-down arrow:

For information on dimensions, see "Using Legacy Dimensions" and "Using Feature Control Frames" chapters in the PC-DMIS Core documentation.

Edit Custom Report from other Measurement Routine - Creates a Custom Report from another measurement routine in your current measurement routine. For details, see "Creating Custom Reports" in the "Reporting Measurement Results" chapter in the PC-DMIS Core documentation.

Insert Custom Report - Inserts a custom report into your measurement routine as with the Insert | Report Command | Custom Report menu function. For details, see "Embedding Reports or Templates into a Measurement Routine" in the "Inserting Report Commands" chapter in the PC-DMIS Core documentation.